Aphagea
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| Aphagea | |
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| Astasia kathemerios | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Clade: | Discoba |
| Phylum: | Euglenozoa |
| Class: | Euglenida |
| Order: | Natomonadida |
| Clade: | Aphagea Cavalier-Smith 1993 emend. Busse & Preisfeld 2003 |
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Aphagea is a group of obligate osmotrophic protists. They are euglenids, flagellates with two flagella and a relatively flexible cell shape underlined with protein strips. Unlike other euglenids, they feed only by osmotrophy, and lack any specialized structure for ingestion.[1] Their closest living relative is Neometanema, a genus of phagotrophic (ingestion-feeding) euglenids, together forming the taxon Natomonadida.[3]
